Holy shit I’ve forgotten how to use Gimp and Inkscape it’s been so long. In fact, I still remember how to use them but they’ve changed so much! Luckily, they have so many awesome new features this strip took half the time to make – which brings the average down to a sweet 3.5 months or so. And GIMP now supports CMYK!! – expect ELER in printed book form by next Xmas! Assuming analogue books will still be available then. And that we have enough oil left to transport them around.

The hiatus was due to upstream. Though normal programming may or may not resume shortly. Promises will not be made, guarantees surely broken, hope sold on ebay.

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Um, I get that they’re all the same exact strips with different captions, and this is supposed to be hilarious (trust me, Dinosaur Comics does it a lot better). But you realize “none” of the strips is actually from 2008.

I have no idea why I like this strip. But I do. And I’ve missed it. I check almost every damned day in my rss feeder… Just know that you *are* appreciated… Thanks… And yes, I think this one is funny, but violates the “third wall”…. ;)

That still doesn’t negate the fact that Joerg is a nut… and doesn’t listen to anyone *including the people who wrote CDDL* that CDDL is incompatible with the GPL and his software is therefore legally undistributable.

Heh! ELER is what RSS was invented for. Anyone who keeps coming back to check this site is doomed. But me? I just keep my RSS reader ticking away and once or twice a year it pops up to tell me there’s a new comic. Nice to see it back. Maybe get another one, soon? More strips surely = more t-shirts. :)

Oh, Marshal. You’re such a joy to have around. So uninententionally amusing. Yeah, sure that’s how I operate — I run around sniffing at the arseholes of projects, going “Ooooh! Oooh! Will this someday make the top-ten list in a magazine I never heard of before and don’t care about, or some other equally meaningless popularity contest?”

You’ve found me out. Tell all your friends, do.

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Which ya know, could be correctly shortened to:

how I operate — I run around sniffing at the arseholes of projects, going “Ooooh! Oooh! Will this someday make the top-ten list in a magazine [,...], or some other [...] popularity contest?

Within the rest of the program, errors returned from gps_poll are frequently handled by exiting gpsd. Why on Earth would you want to quit gpsd because of a short read? These are not errors, and can be returned for numerous reasons that do not indicate any kind of problem.

gpsd appears to be a POS style-wise, too. One could write a whole wiki about things Eric doesn’t understand about writing good code.

Is it something like BSG “it all happened before, will happen again”? WTF?!

But seriously, you still pay for output bandwidth that I use every week to check this site and NOTHING is happening here. Man, I’d pay you to do some more ELERS – get yourself together and do some more! ;)

The idea is, you submit a website that is neglected and which you wish would become active again. If it becomes popular, so much traffic is directed to the site that the maintainers become re-energized and shamed into updating it.

Oh my, it is like a pine tree growing in every direction at once. I am baffled by the intricacy. Perhaps you could attack this squirrel with impunity, who has acquired your nuts and is eating of them with great delight.

Jim Thompson, unfortunately you act like a butt licking stupid doucebag! esr maybe a presumptuous inferior hacker; No one actually denies that (that he’s a loathsome egomaniac). But put that aside and think a little bit: Nedanet is a useful project (just like ip-rental). We Iranians are thankful to nedanet crew (which esr is just a part of). Stop ridiculing any goddamn thing this man does. Making any jokes that comes to your mind is not humane. This is utterly evil. You take yourself as a liberal human, but what you have done as a hacker with a heart towards humanity?! No really, I wanna know!! Iranians are being killed and tortured and denied of their rights and when people like Eric do their share of helping these people it’s not a laughable matter. Instead of helping these guys you laugh at them. Come on! I know you are not such an asshole.

So you say. Afghans and Iraqis definitely are being killed and tortured
and denied of their rights, with Eric S. Raymond’s full approval.
Get the point?

Ofcourse! Who said that I agree with him on that?! Firstly, the ongoing events about Iraq and Afganistan are not quite like what you said; at least US wiped Iraq of Saddam and cleared Afghanistan of Taliban(to a considerable degree). Secondly, the killings are not always pertained to American soldiers. you close your eyes on Wahhabis, Alqaida, Shias, etc. A lot of the bombings are muslims trying to kill each other or the American invaders. Anyhow I don’t want to completely deny the atrocities of Americans there but I think you seem to overlook the other factors. Thirdly, I never heard him approving those events, but let’s take your word as truth: I utterly disagree with him on that and it shows that he is an insensitive man about the issues of middle east and spoon-fed by FOX and the like. But the guy has a better analysis on Iran and (even it may seem as merely a self-promotion) tries to be a good human and does his share of promoting freedom and free-speech by engaging in nedanet. I mean, Come on! What’s wrong with that. I am an iranian and am using nedanet right now to post this comment!!! Let’s not ridicule him on this, if not help him.

Well, now… Jim fucking Thompson (who happens to be the one kicked in the arse and thrown out of esr’s blog) keeps coming back to a dead blog and shouts like a nervous ‘tard and thinks that he’s achieved something. Keep trying, you sick fuck!

Jim, you’re right. The current news coming from Raymond’s blog is the coolest in the last 10 years. He claims that Basij militia of Iran and Hezbollah of Lebanon are after his ass!! What’s his evidence you may ask? A simple comment from an anonymous troll!! :) I think esr has completely lost his connection with reality. Someone should do him a favor and show him to a Freudian psychoanalyst.

Sometime after, millions of *nix administrators die of a shock induced heart attack, and critical infrastructure is left unmaintained. Major companies go bankrupt as their servers succumb to threats normally mitigated by vigilant admins. The economies of the United States and the European Union collapse. Major military powers blame the incident on Chinese cyberwarfare, and invade the nation. Nuclear war ensues.

I see I have been lax in updating my glog. (Guerilla Blog. Think of Banksy in blog form. But less artistic. Maybe I should expand to other ‘sites’ comments.)

However, this is not so important.

What is important is how I could monetise this? Impossible! I hear you cry. Really? I don’t know, stranger things have made money. More popular services have failed to make money. Ideas on how we can make money, (by we I mean me), submit to me here using this comment section.

You will be rewarded. If not here, then in the next life. If you don’t believe in reincarnation, then do it for the love of not being a believer in reincarnation.

Hush Julian; if they know there’s a new ELESR episode in your secret files they’ll come and kill you just on principle. Watch out; these people are Armed and Dangerous. Or at least less than completely harmless.